On the afternoon of August 2, the reporter learned from the 2023 World Robot Conference press conference that the 2023 World Robot Conference will be held from August 16 to 22 in Beijing Economic and Technological Development Zone also Chuang International Convention and Exhibition Center.

As one of the important drivers of intelligent industry innovation and development, robots are profoundly affecting global scientific and technological innovation, industrial structure adjustment and economic and social development. Reporters learned at the meeting that in 2022, China’s robot industry revenue exceeded 170 billion yuan, the production of industrial robots 443,000 sets, the production of service robots reached 6.458 million units, and the newly installed capacity of industrial robots exceeded 50% of the global total, ranking first in the world for nine consecutive years. In the first half of this year, China’s robot industry as a whole maintained stable growth, industrial robot production reached 222,000 sets, an increase of 5.4%; The output of service robots reached 3.53 million sets, up 9.6% year on year.

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In January this year, 17 departments including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Education, and the Ministry of Public Security issued the “Robot +” Application Action Implementation Plan to help the rapid development of smart agriculture, smart medical treatment, smart mining, and smart public security. According to reports, the density of industrial robots in China’s manufacturing industry has reached 322 units per 10,000 workers. Autonomous industrial robots in welding, spraying and other fields have been widely penetrated into new energy vehicles, photovoltaic manufacturing, lithium battery manufacturing and other emerging industries; Service robots have become a good helper to meet people’s needs for a better life in the scale of medical and health care, construction, elderly care and other industries; Special robots are playing an increasingly important role in scientific investigation and emergency rescue.

According to reports, this conference with the theme of “Open innovation and sharing the future”, hosted by the Beijing Municipal People’s Government, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the China Association for Science and Technology, set up three major sectors: forum, exhibition and competition.

At the same time, the conference will also open the 2023 World Robot Championship (Beijing). The competition consists of four major competitions, namely, Integration Robot Challenge, BCI Brain-controlled Robot Competition, Robot Application Competition and Youth Robot Design Competition, including 27 major items, 68 minor items and 116 competition groups. More than 4,000 players from around the world are expected to compete each day.